Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

London is a roost for every bird.